Created by the EMCC Next Generation team, this guide outlines practical steps for developing a ministry plan aligned with your church’s vision. It emphasizes prayerful discernment, long-term thinking, contextual awareness, and the importance of collaboration—with pastors, parents, volunteers, and students. The resource encourages SMART goal setting, ongoing evaluation, and holistic planning. It also offers guidance on building a strong volunteer team through clear expectations, support, and discipleship.

Barna’s Open Generation study highlights how teenagers across Canada view Jesus, the Bible, and their own purpose. It shows that while Gen Z is often described as disengaged, many Canadian teens remain curious, open to spiritual conversations, and interested in learning more about Jesus. The report offers key insights into the challenges and opportunities facing churches and leaders as they seek to connect meaningfully with young people today.

This 8-week guided resource helps churches explore six essential strategies for engaging young people, based on research from the Fuller Youth Institute.

Tim Elmore shows you how to avoid twelve critical mistakes parents unintentionally make. He outlines practical and effective parenting skills so you won’t fall into common traps, such as…making happiness a goal instead of a by-product not letting kids struggle or fight for what they believe not letting them fail or suffer consequences lying about kids’ potential―and not exploring their true potential giving them what they should earnFind out why thousands of organizations have sought out Tim Elmore to help them develop young leaders―and how you can improve your parenting skills and help your kids soar.

Covering key areas like social media, brain development, sex and dating, and the unique challenges of raising teenage girls and guys, each guide blends accessible research with real-world wisdom from experienced youth workers. The books help parents build trust, navigate difficult conversations, and stay present in their teen’s life during seasons of rapid change.

Seeds Family Worship helps children and families engage with Scripture by setting God’s Word to music—word-for-word Bible verses in upbeat, memorable songs. With over 170 songs available on all major streaming platforms, along with CDs, videos, and hand motions, Seeds makes it easy for families and churches to immerse kids in God’s Word through worship.

Parenting for Faith equips parents, carers, and churches to help children and teens develop a real relationship with God in everyday life.

Discover simple habits and easy-to-implement daily rhythms that will help you find meaning beyond the chaos of family life as you create a home where kids and parents alike practice how to love God and each other.

Lectio for Families is a free daily devotional that helps families to read the Bible and explore faith through conversation and prayer together.

Developed in partnership with OneHope, The Bible App for Kids will help your kids fall in love with God’s Word through easy navigation, colorful illustrations, touch-activated animations and special activities and challenges designed to help kids remember what they learn.

This first illustrated Bible storybook from one of the world's top Bible scholars draws the connections across all of God's very good story, His Word. This practical Bible guide shares all your family's favorite stories, plus some that may be new, combining a theologian's expertise with engaging narratives that will draw kids into the good news of the world's greatest, truest tale.

I Am: 40 Reasons to Trust God will help children develop an understanding of God's character and His love for them. As they grow to know, love, and trust the great I Am through these 40 stories, devotions, and prayers, they will learn the many names and titles of God.

Children meet Bible-times friends who share their thrilling stories, each from their own view.

This book will help you discover in simple language about the great God of the Bible. Designed with new believers, the young and people new to English in mind, it is easily read and understood. It has been used to teach youth groups, to disciple new believers and for personal study. Even if you are seasoned with many decades in the church, God will use this book to see him in new ways.

Reframing the focus away from the culture wars, Yarhouse introduces readers to the developmental considerations in the formation of sexual identity―all of which occurs in the teen years. He offers practical and helpful ways to think about homosexuality along with suggestions for talking with people who experience same-sex attraction. He also helps parents and youth volunteers learn to graciously respond to children and teens who struggle with questions of sexual identity, and discusses how youth ministry can become more relevant in the lives of youth who are navigating these issues.

Today's teenagers are the most anxious, creative, and diverse generation in history--which can make it hard for us to relate. And while every teenager is a walking bundle of questions, three rise above the rest:

Who am I?
Where do I fit?
What difference can I make?

Help teenagers become adults who boldly live out a robust faith in a watching world

Most typical youth ministries today produce nice, obedient kids who behave themselves--and then leave the church and the faith. Even those who remain struggle to extend their own faith beyond youth group. They seem like "good kids," but their lives and decisions outside youth group aren't oriented toward Jesus. 

Clearly, that is not our goal. So what are we doing wrong? And how can we better serve the unique needs of the most anxious, adaptive, and diverse generation in history?

Negative perceptions. Church dropouts. Prodigals and nomads. It's easy to get discouraged by all that's going wrong when it comes to Christianity and the emerging generation. Yet what's going right? In fact, signs of hope are springing up all around. In Faith for Exiles, the author of unChristian and You Lost Me unveils major new Barna research that uncovers what's working--five practices that contribute to resilience. Enter the world of resilient young adult Christians and learn how they are sustaining faith. Finally, you can find hope in all that God is doing among young disciples today.

In today’s world, the topic of homosexuality seems to be part of daily conversation in the media, in politics, and even inside churches, with pressure to accept one view or the other. And if you’re a Christian teen, you may feel overwhelmed by the opinions. New York Times bestselling author Dr. Preston Sprinkle has encountered these same questions, and as a theologian and a college professor he has dealt with these issues firsthand.

Compassionate, biblical, and thought-provoking, Embodied is an accessible guide for Christians who want help navigating issues related to the transgender conversation.

Preston Sprinkle draws on Scripture as well as real-life stories of individuals struggling with gender dysphoria to help readers understand the complexities and emotions of this highly relevant topic. With careful research and an engaging style, Embodied explores: